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The 2010 Marconi Society Prize will go to John E. Warnock and Charles M. Geschke, the founders of Adobe Systems Inc.

The two are "visionary business leaders and technological innovators who together helped fundamentally transform the world of print communications from a manual, mechanical process to a digital work flow," according to the Marconi Society.

The two were selected for their research on printing and imaging technology and their development of San Jose-based Adobe's (NASDAQ:ADBE) PostScript, a software technology that is now the worldwide printing and imaging standard used by print service providers, publishers, corporations and government agencies worldwide.

In October the duo will be awarded the $100,000 Marconi Prize, considered the highest honor specifically devoted to information and communications science, at the annual Marconi Awards dinner at the Rosewood Hotel in Menlo Park.

The Marconi Society, established in 1975, annually recognizes a living scientist whose work in the field of communications and information technology advances the social, economic and cultural improvement of all humanity.

Geschke and Warnock met in the late 70’s in Silicon Valley where Geschke was a researcher and group manager in the computer science lab at Xerox PARC and Warnock worked for Evans & Sutherland at Ames Research Laboratory. In 1978, Geschke interviewed and hired Warnock for a position at PARC.

In 1982 they formed a new company, Adobe Systems, named after the creek that ran behind Warnock’s Los Altos home.

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